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As from January 2017 I have decided to become an Ambassador for Tropic Skin Care! The products are beautiful, all natural skin care and make up products. They fit perfectly with HMB Natural Health and my ethos on taking care of…

Beautiful Aromatherapy Bath Salts from Hull Aromatherapist, Heather. Blending essential oils in Epsom Salts is a wonderful way to reap the benefits of aromatherapy and the salts, and means that we make some time for ourselves, and have an excuse…

Using aromatherapy at home day to day is easy and uncomplicated. Many people want to know how to use aromatherapy to support their emotional, physical and spiritual health day to day. It is very simple, and the biggest hurdle for…

I am often asked how can aromatherapy relieve stress. How does it help? Well … it helps in many wonderful ways! Essential oils all have many different properties and ways in which they heal, relax and rejuvenate the body. The…

Let’s talk cellulite … that horrible lumpy bumpy stuff on our bums, legs and as we get older, other places too! If you are one of those lucky people that have never had it ….well, I’m jealous! However, massage treatment…

Grace came to me with the idea to walk up Scafell Pike for Sports Relief… I was somewhat surprised but suitably impressed. In October last year we went to Wastwater and walked up Yewbarrow…however we got about 100 metres from…

Getting the most from your massage treatment is important; there are so many wonderful benefits to massage, it is essential you reap them. Having been an aromatherapist for 16 years, I have obviously massaged many people. I have also had the…

Aromatherapy is hugely beneficial in a variety of ways in pregnancy, but must also be used with caution and care!

The term ‘aromatherapy’ has been widely misused in the last few years, so what exactly does it mean? Well, it is just about using essential oils which are extracted from plants, flowers, herbs, trees, resins and fruits as a therapy. This can be done in a variety of ways, such as through massage, adding them to baths and steam inhalations, sniffing them neat or just burning in an oil burner.

When the oils are used in a massage they are added to a carrier oil, in a very low dilution, and in pregnancy only 1%. 1% means that only one drop of essential oils would be added to 5 mls of carrier oil.

Well I had already started my blog on ‘What happens in a massage’ but got waylayed with messages that were coming at me from everywhere about our ‘purpose’ in life and how we go about truly finding and following, what we are meant to do with our short and precious time on this planet. A line in Walt Hampton’s blog (whose book is great by the way!) made me sit up straight – ‘Is your ladder against the right wall?’, and a quote from Mark Twain ‘The two most important days or your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why’.